Three people are invited to participate in a seminar. Assume all four people arrives independently, and the probability of any one of them is late is 0.2. Let X be the number of late participants of the seminar. . Find the distribution (pmf) of X. Calculate the mean and the variance of X.

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Three people are invited to participate in a seminar. Assume all four people arrives independently, and the
probability of any one of them is late is 0.2. Let X be the number of late participants of the seminar.
Find the distribution (pmf) of X.
Calculate the mean and the variance of X.
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